Helen Frankenthaler Had a Better Way
Briefly

Starting in the 1960s, studios made an industry out of the creation of high-quality runs with premier artists. These weren't posters or even reproductions of other works. They were drawn by the artists' own hands, originally composed for a set of editions, hopefully signed, numbered, and imbued with artists' somatic magic.
She made her name on her abstract expressionist paintings but was bent on upending the idea that printmaking's reproducibility rendered it inherently lesser than other art forms.
Read at Portland Monthly
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